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[jenzebel]

Originally Posted by GiftShoppeGuy

The boom here "will end".

85% of those who built here over the past 8 years will leave us.....

I sure hope so!!!!!
Maybe then life can get back to normal around here.

[JoeJoeMan]

Yea, I'm not so sure that any of those economic senarios that any of you have mentioned will actually happen. Montana is a whole new animal of late.....as far as the part of montana I'm familiar with, western montana, most of the people living here could care less about the economy, they have and will have money reguardless of what the economy does....that's because they all moved here with money.
It's not that same old montana we use to know, where the people that lived here were from here and actually had to make a living here.
Here, try this, if you live in western montana or the Bozeman area, ask yourself how many people you know were born and raised here or for that matter how many of them have actually live basically their entire adult life here - I think your answer will be not very many.

[jimj]

Believe it or not about 3/4 of them maybe a little more and the rest have been here well over 15 years except maybe 2 people.

[JoeJoeMan]

jimj

Believe it or not about 3/4 of them maybe a little more and the rest have been here well over 15 years except maybe 2 people.

That's my point - so 1/4 haven't been here all that long and the other 3/4 you say 15 years or more - that's what I mean, notice you didn't say "born here or been here 30 or 40 years"

[jimj]

JoeJoe, I think you misunderstood, 3/4 of the people were born and raised here, the rest 15 years or more. I know probably 2-4 people who have been here less than 15 years......

[citigirl]

Three years ago we fled the liberal pc madness of California and moved to a city in Montana. Unfortunately it seemed more and more like California. We recently found another town less populated by west coasters. We had our truck parked beside a building we just bought and witnessed a man look at our plates (still had plates from Calif) and spit on them. We knew we found the right town!

[Reziac]

[laughing] Now I have a use for my California plates -- target practice

(I grew up in MT, been in SoCal for the past two decades; CA has gone insane and I'm now trying to get moved back to MT... made vastly difficult by CA money driving MT prices beyond a MT-income's reach)

[peanee]

Wow. The majority of these posts sadden me. This is the United States of America and I assumed we would be free to move from state to state without this type of prejudice! Amazing. I was born and raised in Canada. I became a naturalized American citizen just over a year ago. I have lived in Washington, Arizona and Nevada. I work hard, pay my taxes, and try to be the best person I can be. I feel as a free, law biding citizen, it is my right to live and work in any state I want. I was not born in any state in this country but know I have the right to move to any one I choose. We should all be welcomed as fellow Americans.

[citigirl]

Originally Posted by peanee

Wow. The majority of these posts sadden me. This is the United States of America and I assumed we would be free to move from state to state without this type of prejudice! Amazing. I was born and raised in Canada. I became a naturalized American citizen just over a year ago. I have lived in Washington, Arizona and Nevada. I work hard, pay my taxes, and try to be the best person I can be. I feel as a free, law biding citizen, it is my right to live and work in any state I want. I was not born in any state in this country but know I have the right to move to any one I choose. We should all be welcomed as fellow Americans.

LOL! I lived in Canada for two years and was always in earshot of anti-American speech. I finally had enough and moved back to the states. In fact I was just in Canada last week and always get in debates with my own brother about his adopted Canadian anti-American speech. I always have to remind him to review his birth certificate and remember where he was born and where his family lives.

[JoeJoeMan]

jimj - sorry I misunderstood what you meant - well let me say this than - you case is not a typical one, but of course is all depends on where you live in montana, I know around here in the western montana - missoula area, born and raised folks are very much in a minority.
I would probably suspect that in smaller towns or bigger towns like say billings verses missoula you would find more montana natives. But in foo-foo montana you're more hard press to find natives or old-timers.

For you other folks say we have resentment or anger towards new-comers - well it's not exactly that - it's just that we feel like we're getting over-run and we'd like to see it stop - it doesn't mean we don't necessarily like you.